The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the latest on happiness; sea monsters and Colonial ...

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

Supported by Ministry of Culture, Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum in Khareghat Colony reopened on Thursday. It offers ...

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Many works in ‘All Day All Night’, Christine Sun Kim’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, feature the artist’s native ASL, either manually signed with the body or ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols ... just think things come out of the ground and look like you see them in the museum, but they don’t.” Sébastien Rey, the British Museum’s curator ...

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